Internship within the International master’s programme in political science

During the fourth semester students on the International master’s programme in political science are offered the course “Professional internship in Political Science” (15, 22.5 or 30 credits) as an opportunity to add work experience to their master studies.

The course aims to convey knowledge about the practical use in public administration and elsewhere of methods and theories in political science, and to increase the employability of the students by way of enabling contacts and working life experience.

Students who wish to do an internship period within the master’s programme must find a suitable trainee post by themselves. A precondition for approval of the trainee post from the department is that the post is relevant to the master’s education and that it provides an opportunity to write an internship report. An approved internship report is a precondition for having the education credits for the course “Professional Internship in Political Science” reported to Ladok. Internships should not be salaried.

Internship information STVEO pdf, 373.2 kB. (373 Kb)

Instruction for the internship report

In order to give the department a possibility to plan the supply of master’s courses, students who wish to do an internship period must submit an internship agreement to the Department of Political Science. See Athena or contact the Student counselors for more information.


Agreement internship master(45 Kb)

Agreements that are signed by the student and the employer should be submitted to the Study Councellor in original for approval and signature. Only complete agreements that are correctly filled in will be approved. Either hand in the agreement in the Study Councellor's post box on floor 7 or send it to the following address:

Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Att: Christian Möllerop
Stockholms universitet
106 91 Stockholm

Mark the envelope ”Internship”.

The internship agreement is the basis for registration on the course “Employment preparative internship”.

Students who will do internship abroad will be insured through Student UT upon registration. If the trainee post is located in Europe it is important to bring both a student insurance card and Försäkringskassans sjukförsäkringskort (ordered at Försäkringskassan) to the internship.

For internship in Sweden the regular student insurance is effective – as in the case of other studies in Sweden.

Please note that internship abroad may require a visa in some countries. Students who plan to do their internship in another country are responsible for checking whether a visa is required in the country in question, and to acquire a visa in cases where this is required.

We are currently posting adverts on internship positions sent to us by embassies, companies and organisations. You can see the adverts (mostly in Swedish) on Athena.

See also the University website for more adverts.

Last updated: 2025-09-17

Source: Department of Political Science

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